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THE 



LIPPINCOTTS 



IN 



ENGLAND AND AMERICA 



EDITED FROM THE GENEALOGICAL PAPERS OF THE LATE 



JAMES S. LIPPINCOTT 




PHILADELPHIA 
1909 



13 






CONTENTS. 



Introduction 5 

CHAPTER I. 
The Lippincotts in England 7 

CHAPTER II. 
Richard and Abigail Lippincott 29 

CHAPTER III. 
Richard and Abigail's Children and Descendants 42 



INTRODUCTION 



The facts which constitute the body of this work and give it value 
were collected by the late James S. Lippincott, during a period of over 
forty years, extending from 1840 to 1883. 

Mr. Lippincott was earnestly engaged in this Genealogical work 
up to within a short time of his death (March 17, 1885), and he had 
always hoped to publish the results of his investigations in a volume at 
once worthy of his own labors and the varied record of the Lippincott 
Family. 

The fact that this desire has at last been in some measure realized 
is largely due to the generous appreciation of Mr. James J. Goodwin, 
of New York, son-in-law of the late J. B. Lippincott, of Philadelphia. 

As early as the year 1849, the late James S. Lippincott, in a letter 
sent hither and thither in search of genealogical information, said, 
" Having for several years been interested in the collection of facts 
respecting the Lippincott Family, I have been encouraged to seek fur- 
ther information relative to the origin and history of its early members, 
and it is with the hope that such may be elicited that I have addressed 
thee. Though much has already been collected, all that has come to 
my knowledge is confined to one branch, and the history of others, 
comprising much the most numerous portion, remains unknown." 

In this same letter Mr. Lippincott stated very clearly the object of 
his search as it had then defined itself in his own mind, as follows: 
" If a proper interest should be manifested by the ready assistance 
afforded the undertaking, a connected account of the Family since 
the arrival of its progenitor in this country will be prepared, 
prefaced by the information already obtained, and that may be hereafter 
procured respecting those of the name resident in Great Britain, the 
History of the Name, its origin, adoption, variations, &c, with proofs 
of the same from judicial and other records." 

How careful Mr. Lippincott was in all his researches, and how will- 
ing to correct his own previous information or opinions based thereon, 
may be gathered from the fact that in the short sketch of the " Lippin- 
cott's prepared by him for Mr. John Clement's Book of " Sketches of 
The First Emigrant Settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester 
County, West New Jersey," and in the five years intervening between 
the time of its publication and his death, Mr. Lippincott had made no 
less than twelve changes and corrections in the nine pages of his owr 

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6 Introduction. 

copy of that work. It was not that the work had not been carefully 
done to begin with, but that fresh investigation brought new facts 
which he desired to have embodied in the record. 

In the same line and spirit it is worth while to quote in this per- 
manent statement a letter written by Mr. James S. Lippincott, January 
9th, 1878, to Mr. Alfred Earle, then resident of Lovecott, in Devonshire, 
England : " My dear Sir, I often find especial pleasure in recalling the 
incidents attending our call at Lovecott in the Summer of 1876, when 
on a pilgrimage to the homes of my English Ancestors. Nothing suc- 
ceeds like success, and I was greatly gratified to find that I had at last 
discovered the rock from whence my name, if not myself, had been 
hewn. The confirmation added by Mr. Powell was of a character that 
ought to satisfy, since his authority is unimpeachable, but I would like 
to have further confirmation in the form of a description of the estate 
of Lovecott for comparison with the details of the Domesday Book, 
such as the number of acres of meadow and number of acres comprised 
in the entire estate. I think you remarked that Upper and Lower 
Lovecott had been applied to the estate, but perhaps I am confounding 
it with Lovecott near Alverdiscott. I remember you spoke of James' 
Lovecott as a name applied to part of the tract. If you would not deem 
it irksome I would like to have from your hand all the information 
you can collect respecting Lovecott, whether legendary, historical or 
statistical. 

" I have hitherto believed that the Parish of Luffmcott on the Tamer 
was the cradle of our race, and now that your Lovecott has been shown 
to be the veritable spot, my calculations and my notes must be revised 
and adapted to the new departure. I have records of sundry Lippin- 
cotts, as now spelled, who held Luffmcott, anciently Lughencott and 
Lovecote, from 1195, to recent dates, but they all seem to refer to 
Luffmcott on the Tamer. Since both Lovecote and Luffmcott are in 
the Hundred of Black Torrington I cannot distinguish them in the 
records I have examined." 

After 1878, Mr. James S. Lippincott made such alteration in his 
notes as seemed to him demanded by his latest information, and in the 
following pages, which appear very much in his own words, he evidently 
having practically completed this part of the work for publication, 
matters referred to in this letter are treated with fuller detail. 

Touching the desirability of having Mr. James S. Lippincott's 
genealogical investigations published in the form of a book, Mr. Samuel 
R. Lippincott, of Richmond, Indiana, in a letter written to Mr. James 
S. Lippincott, August 13th, 1880, probably expressed the general senti- 
ment of the now widely-scattered members of the family when he said, 
speaking of the Lippincott Tree then " about ready," " I would have 
much preferred it in the shape of a handsome volume (so much more 
easily preserved), with the photographs of as many leading members, 
past and present, as could be obtained." 



THE LIPPINCOTTS 



IN 



ENGLAND AND AMERICA. 



CHAPTER I. 

THE LIPPINCOTTS IN" ENGLAND. 

Outline Scheme of Descent of the Representatives of the Lippincott Family 

in England. 

" Surnames/' says Dr. Thomas Fuller, " were fixed in families in 
England at or about the time of the Conquest." " Formerly though 
men had surnames, yet their sons did not, as I may say, follow suit 
with their father; the name descended not hereditarily on the family." 
"It began somewhat sooner, in the Confessor's time [1042 — 1066], 
fetched out of France, but not universally settled till some hundred 
and fifty years after." 

" All that came over with the Conqueror," says the same quaint 
author, " were not Gentlemen until they came over with the Conqueror. 
For instantly upon their victory, their flesh was refined, bloud clarified, 
spirits elevated to an higher purity and perfection." " Many of the 
Norman souldiery suddenly starting up honourable from mean orig- 
inals. 

In Fuller's "List of Battle Roll," extracted from Fox's list and 
adapted to the spelling of the time, is the name of I. de Louotot. 

But as the " Battle- Abbey Roll," or list of the names of the soldiers 
of the Conqueror, " hath," says Fuller, " been practiced upon with all 
the figures of Diction, prothesis, aphceresis, &c. : some names therein 
being augmented, subtracted, extended, contracted, lengthened, cur- 
tailed," and " Doomsday Book will be believed on its Word before 
Battel Roll on its oath," we may pass " I. de Louotot " by as of no 
importance in this connection, and turn to the Domesday Book as of 
undoubted authority, and find therein the original of the name of 
Lippincott and esteem our ancestors of Saxon, not of Norman blood. 

While the merits or demerits of our ancestry should entail no blame 
or praise upon their descendants, an influence physical and moral will 

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8 The Lippincotts in England and America. 

be received and handed down, and generation after generation will 

partake of the character of their sires. It therefore becomes a question 

of much interest to their sons now on the stage of being, and the desire 

a laudable one, to learn what manner of men their fathers were. 

He who can look back upon a long line of ancestors, known in their 

day as useful citizens of fair fame among men, virtuous Christians, 

and in times of persecution enduring trials for righteousness' sake with 

the unflinching firmness of martyrs, boasts a lineage prouder than 

that from feudal lord or the blood-stained soldiers of the Norman 

robber. 

*********** 

The Family of Lippincott derived its name from Lovecott, between 
Hatherleigh and Holsworthy, in the west of Devonshire, England. 
This manor was the property and residence of the eldest branches of 
the family from the time of King Henry III., 1243, until the second 
year of KiDg Henry V., 1414. 

The mansion and estate of Wibbery, in the parish of Alverdiscott 
(Alscot), about seven miles from Barnstaple, Devon, came into the 
possession of the Lippincotts of Lippincott on the marriage of John 
Lippincott of "Lippincott" with Joan, daughter and coheir of John 
Wibbery, in the fourteenth century. It continued in their possession 
and was their place of abode until Henry Lippincott, Esq., the last of 
the name at Alverdiscott, sold the estate to Charles Cutcliffe, Esq. 
Henry Lippincott, Esq., died in 1779. 

Early in the sixteenth century a branch of the family resident at 
Alverdiscott removed to the eastern part of Devonshire, and we thence- 
forward find many of the name resident near Sidbury, Honiton, Exeter, 
and Plymouth, Devon. 

The earliest notice of Lovecote is to be found in the Domesday 
Book of William the Conqueror, 1086, where it is termed Louecota and 
Lovecote. The following fac-simile of the entry on page 115 of vol. i. 
of the printed copy of this first census of England will exhibit the 
extent and quality of the manor at this early day : 

[Insert Saxon.] 

Translated: K.uald himself held Lovecote. Lofe held it in the time 
of Edward the Confessor, paying geld or tax, on a half virgate of land ; 
now returned as two ox-gangs or plow-lands. There remain two vil- 
lani or serfs, four acres of meadow land and twelve acres of pasturage. 
It was formerly [time of Edward] valued at thirty, but now at fifty 
denarii. 

A more full description of Lovecote may be found in the Exton 
[Exeter] Domesday, which is believed to contain an exact transcript of 
the original rolls or returns made by the Conqueror's Commissioners 
at the time of the general survey, from which the Great Domesday itself 
was compiled. 



The Lippincotts in England and America. 9 

On page 385 of the government reprint of this work we find the 
following entry under " Terra Rualdi Adobati in Devenesara," or lands 
held by Rualdus Adobatus in Devonshire : 

[Insert Saxon.] 

As the intent of the above is almost identical with that of the entry 
before transcribed from the Great Domesday Book, it need not be 
rehearsed. 

" The ancient and authentic record of Domesdav Book has been 
universally esteemed the foundation of English property, the origin 
from whence antiquarians have commenced their enquiries, and beyond 
which it is almost useless for them to search." 

The next notice of the name appears in the Eolls of the Curia? 
Regis, or King's Court, held before his Justices during the reign of 
King Richard I. and King John, " the earliest consecutive judicial 
records now existing," says their editor, Sir Francis Palgrave. 

On page 7 of vol. i of " Rotuli Curia? Regis," from the sixth year 
of Richard I. to the accession of King John, under the sixth year 
of Richard, or 1195, appears the name of " Rog r d Luuecote," or Roger 
de Dovecote. 

In the " Rotuli Hundredorum," or Hundred Rolls, time of Henry 
111. and Edward I., 1216 to 1307, preserved in the Tower of London, 
on page 64, vol. i., " Com. Devon Edw. I./' subdivision " Vered 'em 
Hundr'i Blak' toriton," 1274, the following-named members of the 
family were subpcenaed to act as jurymen or on some similar duty, all 
resident in the Hundred of Black Toriton, in which the parish of 
Luffingcott is situated, viz., " Jordanus de Loginggetot & Robertus de 
Lyvenescot." On page 65 of vol. i. of the records of the same Hun- 
dred appears the name of " Johannes de Luskote," also of "Rum"( ?) 
or Richardus " filium," or son of, " Thomas cle Luscote." 

In the " Placita de quo warranto Ed. I., II., and III.," on page 291 
appears a summons addressed to Johannes de Lovetot. The date of 
this entry appears to have been somewhere between the years 1274 and 
1350. 

In the " Taxatio Ecclesiastica P. Nicholai," or Register of taxation 
or tithes granted in A.D. 1283, by the Pope Nicholas to Edward I. 
for six years, towards defraying the expenses of the Expedition for the 
Holy Land, and which commenced in 1288, we find the following: 
" Ecclia de Loughwyngcote [taxed] £1 : sO : dO." This entry appears 
on pages 154 and 156 of the above named record. Elsewhere the name 
appears as " Rec. of Leffyngcote." 

From Sir William Pole's " Devon," p. 367 : 

" Lywenscot & Luttesworthy in the same manor, St. Lawrence 
Flemygnge held anno 27 of King Henry III. (1243) ; Robert de 
Lywenscot anno 24 of King Edw. I. (1296); & John de Lywenscot 
anno 19 of King Edw. III. (1346)." 



10 The Lippincotts in England and America. 

From the same, p. 366 : 

"Worthy in the manor of Braworthy, Jordan Russell held anno 
27 of King Henry III. (1243) ; Robert de Lunenescot held the same 
anno 24 of King Edw. I. (1296) ; & John de Lunenescot anno 19 of 
King Edw. III. (1346)." 

From the " Calendarium inquistronum [inquisitionum?] sive Es- 
caetarum " Edw. III., on page 290, vol. ii., appears the following entry: 
" Joh'es de Loghwyngcote, Loghwyngcote, una caruc. terr. . . . 
Devon." 

By the " Abbreviatio Rotulorum Originalium Edw. III.," p. 298 
(1327 to 1377), we find that the above John de Loghwyngcote had 
in possession a messuage, a carucate (100 to 120 acres) of land and 
eight acres of woodland in " Loghincote," as his name is also spelled. 
Again in the same volume he appears as Johannes de Lyghincote. 

In the "Escaet de anno Decimo tertio Ricardi Secundi," or Escheats 
of the 13th year of Richard II., 1390, the following appears: "Joh'es 
Alius et Heres Willi' de Lufcote," under head of Devonshire; or John, 
son and heir of William de Lufcote. 

By Sir William Pole's " Devon," 1791, under the head of Lippin- 
cott, we find the following: 

"Lippincott — Luffencott, anciently spelled Lughencott. Robt de 
Lughencot or Loghencot held it anno 27 Henry III. (1243), he granted 
it to his son, youngest, Jordan; he held it in 24 anno Edw. I. (1297) ; 
he had issue John; 8 Ed. II. (1315) : he had Thomas, yr 19 of Ed. III. 
(1346) : he had . . . John, — and so continued to Nicholas L., 
who gave the same to John Wise of Sidenham, anno 2 Henry V. (1415), 
and is now (1791) in that family of Thomas Wise." 

From Lysons's " Magna Britannia," vol. vi. p. 323 : " Luffincott or 
Luffingcott, in the Hundred of Black Torrington and the Deanery of 
Holsworthy, lies about seven miles from Holsworthy and eight miles 
and a half from Launceston. The manor belonged to the ancient 
Family of Luffincot, since spelled Lippincott, from a very early period 
till the reign of Henry V. (1413), when it was sold to John Wise, Esq., 
of Sydenham. It continued in the family of Wise when Sir William 
Pole made his collections. At a later period it was in that of the 
Morices of Wcrrington. Humphrey Morice, Esq., the last of that 
family, bequeathed it to the late Mr. Luther, who, about the year 1805, 
sold it to Mr. John Venner and Mr. Joseph Spettigue, to whom it still 
belongs, with the advowson of the rector}'. Mr. Spettigue resides at 
the Barton near the church." 

In 1850 the Rev. Frank Parker was rector, and his library of 2500 
volumes of ancient editions of the Fathers of the Church forms a collec- 
tion not perhaps rivalled elsewhere. This gentleman and the daughter 
of Mr. Spettigue were visited in 1850 by James S. Lippincott, of 



The Lippincotts in England and America. 11 

Haddonfield, New Jersey. He also perambulated the parish and exam- 
ined the ancient church of Luffingcott, and enjoyed the hospitality of 
the genial and pious rector. 

Sir William Pole in his " Devon " states that " John Lippincott 
held Wibbery in King Henry V.'s time (1413 to 1422), and his heirs, 
male and female, holdeth the same and dwelleth there." 

From the Chancery Records, Temp. Eliza., on page 79, vol. i., 
B. h. 2 (1558 to 1603) Robert Burlton appears as Plaintiff and Richard 
Lippingcott, Johan his wife, Laomeon Lippingcott and Wilmott, his 
wife, Defendants. The object of this suit was a claim by purchase 
of certain shares of the manor of Odam in the parish of Highhampton 
and of the manor of Pelworthye in the parish of Hatherlye, and of 
messuages in Odam and Mousehole in said parish of Highhampton 
and of messuages in Felworthye, Hayes, Redhilles, Noderdon, and 
Withybed in the parish of Hatherlye, Devon. 

From the " Proceedings in Chancery," Temp. Eliza. (1558 to 1603), 
on page 162, vol. ii., L. 1. 9 ; John Lippencott, Plaintiff, John Braye and 
George Braye, Defendants, claims as heir a piece of ground called 
Stony-Cross in Alscott, late the estate of plaintiff's father. Devon. 

A Laomedon Lippincott appears in Betham's Baronetage as son of 
Thomas of Culmstock, and might have been born about 1630. He is 
called Leonardum by Playfair. 

From the " Proceedings in Chancery," Temp. Eliza., on page 132, 
vol. iii., L. 1. 1 : John Lyppincott, Esq., Plaintiff, Oliver Flemancke, 
Defendant, claims for performance of marriage contract the Barton 
and demesne of Boscarne and other lands in the parish of Bodmyn, 
agreed to be settled by defendant on his marriage with defendant's 
daughter. Cornwall. 

Thomas Flammock or Flammank, a man of respectable family, 
and a lawyer, Michael Joseph, a Smith of Bodmin, and Lord Audley 
were leaders of a revolt on the occasion of the raising a tax by Henry 
VII. to defray the expenses of his war with Scotland. The insurgents 
were defeated on Blackheath and their leaders executed. 1495. Penny 
Cyclop., vol. viii. p. 40. 

Roger de Luuecote, whose name appears in the Rolls of the King's 
Court for the sixth year of Richard I. to the accession of King John, 
under the head of Leicester ( ?), 1195 to 1199, is the first, after " I. de 
Louetot " of the Battle Abbey Roll of doubtful authority, whose name 
approximates to that of LufFincot or Luffingcote or Lippincott. 

Robert de Lyvenescot resided in Black Torrington, in which the 
manor of Lovecote is situated, as appears by the Hundred Rolls of time 
of King Henry III. and King Edward I., or from A.D. 1216 to 1307. 
He held Lughencot or Logheneot or Lywenscot or Lunenescot, by all 
which forms of spelling it appears in Sir William Pole's " Devon," 



12 The Lippincotts in England and America. 

in the time of King Henry III., 27th .year, says the same authority, 
and granted it to his youngest son Jordan, who also is named in the 
Hundred Rolls of the same reigns. 

Jordan or Jordanus de Loginggetot, as he is termed in the Hundred 
Rolls of time of King Henry III. and King Edward I., held the manor 
in the 24th year of the latter king (1295). 

John, probably the John de Luskote or Lufkote, for s and / are read- 
ily confounded in the ancient manuscript, was son of Jordan, and is 
named in the same Rolls as having been sworn a member of a jury 
of twelve, before whom it was testified that Symon de Charleray had 
killed Richard, son of Thomas de Luscote or Lufcote. These parties 
were all of the Hundred of Black Torrington. Devon. 

John de Lughencot, says Sir W. Pole, was born in the 8th year of 
Edward II., or A.D. 1315; but as it is probable he does not intend to 
fix the date of birth, but of inheritance, he may have been the John 
named on the above jury. 

Thomas de Lughencot was son of the before-named John, and was 
born in or inherited the manor of Lughencot in the 19th year of King 
Edward III., A.D. 1346, says the same excellent authority, already 
quoted. 

John de Lughencot was probably a son of the above Thomas, but not 
the John who lost his estates or his life-right therein in the time of 
King Edward III., A.D. 1327-1377, who was son of William. His son 
or grandson Nicholas sold the property in Luffmcott in 1415 to John 
Wise, of Sidenham. 

" John Lippincott held Wibbery in King Henry V.'s time, and 
his heirs, male and female, holdeth the same and dwelleth there" 
(A.D. 1635), says Sir W. Pole in his "Devon." Time of Henry V. 
was A.D. 1413 to 1422. 

There lived thereabouts another John Lippincott, perhaps the 
above, son and heir of William de Luscote or Lufcote, who may have 
been the John who lost his estates, as his name appears among the 
escheats of the 13th year of King Richard II., A.D. 1390. This may 
have been a revisal of the escheats of a former reign. The calendar 
of post-mortem inquisitions again names the manor of LufTyngcote 
in the reign of King Henry I., A.D. 1400 to 1413, and again in the 
reign of King Henry II., A.D. 1421 to 1471, which is many years after 
it was sold by Nicholas de Lughencot to John Wise, of Sidenham ; but 
it is named as belonging to Thomas Carmynowe. 

John Lippincott who married the heiress of Wibbery is called of 
Lipingcot, and his son after him, many years after John Lippincott 
lost his estates (1327 to 1357) in Lovecote or Luffincot. The latter 
appears to have been son and heir of William de Luskote or Lufkote, 
and to have lost but one camcate of land, mansion, etc. By the Domes- 



The Lippincotts in England and America. 13 

day Book survey there were two carucates in Lovecote, so that John L. 
of Lipingcot may have held the other, and his heirs have sold it to the 
Wises of Sidenham in 1415, and the records be proved consistent. 

The above John Lippincott, Esq., who held Wibbery in King Henry 
V.'s time, was probably son of the John who was son of Thomas, both 
of whom held Lughencot, as before stated. The said John Lippincott, 
Esq., of Wibbery married Jane, daughter and coheir of John Wibbery, 
Esq., of Wibbery in Alverdiscott, Devon, near Bideford, by whom he 
had issue: 

John Lippincott, Esq., of Lippincott and Wibbery, who married 
Wikes, daughter of Wikes, of , Devon, and had issue : 

1. William, who deceased without issue. 

2. Elizabeth, married William Gifford, of Weare Gifford, in Devon. 

3. Eleanor, married Chipman. 

4. John of Lippincott and Wibbery, Esq., who succeeded his 

brother and married Jane, daughter of Laplode, of Sid- 
bury, near Honiton, Devon, and had issue : 

1. Ann, married John Harlewin, of Sidmouth, Devon. 

2. Philip, married first, Alice Gough; second, Jane Larder; third, 

Alice Dyrrant. 

3. Thomas. 

4. Lewis. 

5. William. 

6. John. 

Philip Lippincott, Esq., of Wibbery, Devon, married first, Alice, 
daughter and coheir of Richard Gough, of Kylkenham, Cornwall, and 
had issue: 

1. John, who deceased 12th Nov., 1576, married Anne, daughter 

and heiress of Roger Elforde, of Shepstow, Devon, ancestor of 
Sir William Elford, Baronet.* 

2. Jane, who married John Butler, son and heir of Philip Butler. 

Philip Lippincott married his second wife, Jane, daughter 

of Larder, Esq., of Pynes, in TJpton-Pyne, Devon, and 

had issue: 

3. Margaret, married Hugh Roscornick or Rostorick, of Cornwall. 

4. Edmund. 

5. Henry. 

6. Arthur. 

7. Anne, married John Viney. 

Philip Lippincott married his third wife, Alice, daughter of 

Dyrrante, of Ear[n?]scombe, by whom he had no issue. 

* John Lippincott, Esq., of Wibbery in Devon, is called the eldest son of 
Philip and gentleman in the Heralds' Visitations of 1565 and 1620. 



14 The Lippincotts in England and America. 

John Lippincott, Esq., of Wibbery, son of Philip and Jane 
[Alice?], married Anne, daughter and coheir of Koger Elforde, of 
Shepstow, and had issue: 

1. John, born June 10, 1555, and deceased 1597. 

2. Anthony, of Eastwood, Devon, married Catharine , and 

had a daughter, Anne, who married Taylor. 

3. Frances, married first, Anthony Berry, of Eastleigh, Devon, and 

had a son, Ealph. Second, married Alexander Kolle, of 
Devon, the third son of John Kolle, of Stevenstone, Devon, 
founder of the house of Rolle, whence proceeded Henry Rolle, 
Lord Chief Justice of England during the first years of the 
Commonwealth, Sir John Eolle, who was esteemed one of the 
wealthiest commoners of England, and the present John Eolle, 
Lord Eolle of Stevenstone, whose seat at Bicton, near Honiton, 
Devon, is unrivalled in its extensive and magnificent plantation 
of American trees and shrubs. 

4. Margaret, married Eobert Heme, of Wales. 

5. Mary, married John Collamore, of West Haginton, in Ilfracombe, 

Devon. 

John Lippincott, Esq., of Wibbery, Devon, eldest son of John and 
Anne, married Joan , and dying in 1597, left issue: 

1. Arthur, deceased 1598, married first, Mary, daughter of Thomas 

Leigh, of Northampton, Devon; second, Sibil, daughter of 
Eichard Halse, in 1595, and deceased without issue. 

2. George, deceased 7th Dec, 1623, married Nazaria Huishe, 

daughter of William Huishe or Hewish, rector of Kilkenham, 
Cornwall. 

3. Honor, married first, Copplestone; second, Humphrey 

Brontz, of Chayford, Devon. 

4. Barbara, married Christopher Cock, of Camelford, Cornwall. 

5. Mary, married Nicholas Flamanch, and had issue. 

Arthur Lippincott, Esq., of Wibbery, Devon, son of John and 
Joan, married first, Mary, daughter of Thomas Leigh, of Northam, 
Devon. She was interred at Northam 10th January, 1594, leaving no 
issue. A monument to her memory exists in Northam church, says 
Lysons in his " Devon," page 366, Part II. Arthur married his second 
wife, Sybil, daughter of Eichard Halse, of Kenedon, in Sherford, Devon, 
in 1595. Arthur died in 1598, without issue. His widow married 
Eobert Savery, of Eattery, Devon, and survived until 1650. 

George Lippincott, Esq., of Wibbery, son of John and Joan, 
married, in May, 1620, Nazaria, or Hazar Huishe (daughter of Eev. 
William Huishe or Hewish, of Kilkhampton, Cornwall, who deceased 
about 1611), and had issue a son: 



The Lippincotts in England and America. 15 

William, born in 1621, and was living 5th June, 1655. He married 
a sister of Sir John Fitzjames, of Lewson, Dorset, knight, and had 
issue : 

1. John. 

2. George. 

3. Arthur. 

4. Charles. 

Thomas Lippincott Esq., second son of John Lippincott and Jane 
Laplode, married and had issue : 

George Lippincott, who married, 8th May, 1563, Mary , and 

had issue. 

1. Christian, baptized, 27th Sept., 1566. 

2. Thomas, " 26th Feb., 1569. 

3. Thomas, " 1st Feb., 1572. 

Thomas Lippincott, Esq., of Pynehill in Sidbury, Devon, son of 
George and Mary, married, 16th July, 1605, Elizabeth, relict of Thomas 
Lippincott, by whom, dying in 1620, he left issue, five sons and four 
daughters, viz. : 

1. Thomas, born 1610, married Dorothy Baker, deceased 1667. 

2. George, born 1611, married first, Dorothy ; second, Ellen 

Bartlett, and left no male issue. 

3. Henry, born 1613, bapt. Jan. 7, 1613, deceased Jan. 7, 1698; 

married Rebecca Mills, of Uffculm, in Culmstock, Devon, about 
1670. 

4. John, born 1615, married, 21st April, 1647, Mary Bartlett. 

5. Walter, born 1619, buried 1652 (or 1682). 

6. Jane. 

7. Grace. 

8. Mary. 

9. Prudence. 

Thomas Lippincott, Esq., of Cumstock, Devon, son of Thomas and 
•Elizabeth, of Pynehill, settled in Culmstock, Devon, and married 
Dorothy Baker, and deceased in 1667, leaving issue: 

1. Thomas, born 1645, and deceased in 1658. 

2. Henry. 

3. John, born 1647, died 1684; married Grace Baker, and left no 

male issue. 

4. George, born 1650. 

5. Leonardum or Laomedon, born 1652; died 1724. 

6. Robert 



16 The Lippincotts in England and America. 

7, 8, 9. Daughters. 

10. Luke, born 1665, married, 1690, Mary Fair 

11. Thomas, of Catspear, Buckland, Devon. 

Luke Lippincott, Esq., son of Thomas, of Culmstock, and Dorothy 
Baker, married, 1690, Mary Farr, and had issue: 

1. Thomas, married Joan Wyne, of Prescott. 

2. Henry died young. 

3. Dorothy, married first, William Prim ; second, Nicholas Bicknell, 

of Buckland. 

4. Joan, married first, Thomas Parsons ; second, William Downe. 

Thomas Lippincott, of Catspear, Buckland, Devon, son of Thomas 
and Dorothy, married , and had issue : 

1. John. 

2. Dorothy. 

3. Agnes, married John Hill, Esq. 
' 4. Thomas, died without issue. 

5. John, who died at Frome, without issue. 

6. Samuel, born 1701, living unmarried in 1766, at Wellington, 

Somerset. 

7. George, living in 1766 ; married and had issue, Elizabeth. 

8. Prudence, who married Cadbury, of Culmstock, apothecary. 

Walter Lippincott, son of Thomas, of Pynehill, and Elizabeth, 
married , and had issue : 

1. Thomas, born 1651 or 1657. 

2. Elizabeth. 

3. Dorothy or Mary. 

Thomas Lippincott, son of Walter, married , and had 

issue : 

1. Thomas, married and had a son Joseph. 

2. Joseph, born 1673, died an infant. 

3. Abraham, born April 6, 1675. 

4. Elizabeth, born Jan. 25, 1676. 

5. Walter, born Dec. 25, 1679, died 1760. 

6. Richard, born 6th Feb., 1681. 

7. Leonardum, born 19th Sept., 1686. 

8. John, born 22d March, 1688. 

9. Henry, born 20th May, 1691. 

10 and 11. James and Dorothy, twins, born 6th Jan., 1694. 
12. Charity, born 29th March, 1696, and who married 29th Sept., 
1718, Edward Collins, Esq. 



The Lippincotts in England and America. 17 

Walter Lippincott, fourth son of Thomas, married Frances or 
Joan, daughter of Hercules Lee, of Sidbury, Devon, and died at 
Awlescombe near Honiton, Devon, in 1760. He left issue: 

1. Thomas. 

2. Luke. 

3. Henry. 

4 and 5. Isaac and Jacob, twins. 

6. Abraham, born 28th Nov., 1705, married and had a daughter, 

Elizabeth. 

7. Johanna. 

8. Elizabeth. 

9. Mary. 

Eichard Lippincott, son of Thomas, married and had issue, two 
sons and one daughter: 

1. Joseph, born March 1, 1709. 

2. Eichard, born March 5, 1711. 

3. Mary, born June 20, 1714. 

Henry Lippincott, of Almshayne, Devon, third son of Thomas, 
of Pynehill, in Sidbury, married Eebecca Mills, of Uffculme, in Culm- 
stock, and deceased January, 1698, leaving issue two sons and three 
daughters : 

1. Elizabeth, born 1670, married James Cook, of Burkhill, in Culm- 

stock, Devon. 

2. Eebecca, born 1673, married John Wright, of Longford, in 

Collumpton, Devon, and had issue, William, Henry, and 
Eebecca. 

3. Anne, born 1675, married Francis Waldron, of Hemiock, Devon, 

and had issue, Henry, living unmarried, in 1766. 

4. John, born 1675 ( ?), deceased 11th May, 1685. 

5. Henry, born 1677, deceased 1745 ; married Mary Peperell. 

Henry Lippincott, Esq., of Culmstock, eldest son of Henry of 
Almshayne, married Mary, daughter of Timothy Peperell, of Culm- 
stock, by whom he had issue : 

1. Mary, who died young. 

2. Mary, who died young. 

3. Eebecca, born 1733, and was living, unmarried, in 1794-95. 

4. Elizabeth, baptized Jan. 6, 1735, deceased, unmarried, 1762. 

5. Henry, baptized 14th Sept., 1737. 

Henry Lippincott, Esq., of Bristol and Stoke Bishop, in Glouces- 
shire, High Sheriff of the city of Bristol, 1768-1771; also Sheriff of 
Gloucester in 1776; created a Baronet July 28, 1778. Sir Henry mar- 
2 



18 The Lippincotts in England and America. 

ried Feb. 10, 1774, Catharine Jefferis, only daughter and heiress of 
Charles Jefferis (by Catharine, only daughter of Sir William Cann, 
Baronet, who succeeded to the Cann estates on the death of her brother, 
Sir Robert, the last Baronet), with whom he acquired the seat and 
estates of the Cann family, and by whom he had issue a son: 

Sir Henry Cann Lippincott, the second Baronet of Sttoke 
House, in Stoke Bishop, near Bristol, who was born June 5, 1776, 
and deceased 13th Aug., 1829, when the Baronetcy became extinct. 

Stoke House, in the parish and manor of Stoke Bishop, was built 
in 1669. It is a handsome seat, four miles west of Bristol, on the 
north bank of the Severn, commanding a very fine view of the Severn 
and Avon and the shipping on these rivers. 

Eobert Cann Lippincott, Esq., of Overcourt, Gloucestershire, 
England, son of Sir Henry Cann Lippincott, Bart., of Overcourt, whose 
name he assumed by Royal license in 1831, on succeeding to the prop- 
erty of Overcourt, was born 1819; married first, 1840 (?), Margaret 
Agnes, daughter of Mr. Sergeant Ludlow, who deceased at Harrowgate, 
June 28, 1845; second marriage, July 18, 1854, to Julia Sulivan, sec- 
ond daughter of Sir John Francis Davis, Bart., K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S., 
and has by the former, with other issue : 

Robert Cann Cann Lippincott, born 1841, and educated at 
Harrow. 

Robert Cann Lippincott, Esq., of Overcourt, was educated at Eton 
and Christ Church, Oxford, and is Lord of the manors of Compton 
Greenfield, Littleton upon Severn, and Aust, and patron of two livings, 
Overcourt, Almondsbury, Bristol. 

Sir John Francis Davis, Bart., above named, was attache to Lord 
Amherst's Embassy to China in 1816, and Joint Commissioner with 
Lord Napier in China in 1834, and Her Majesty's Minister Plenipo- 
tentiary and Governor of Hong-Kong, 1844 to 1848. His residence is 
Hollywood House, Hen bury, Bristol. 

Probable line of descent of Sir Henry Cann Lippincott, of Stoke 
House, Bristol, England, etc. : 

1. Roger de Luvecote, Temp. (Richard & John), 1195 to 1199. 

2. Robert de Lughencot or Lyvenescot (Henry III.), 1243. 

3. Jordan de Loginggetot, his son (Edward I.), 1295. 

4. John de Luskote or Lufkote, his son (Edward II.), 1315. 

5. Thomas de Luskote or Lufkote, his son (Edward IIL), 1346. 

6. John de Lyghingcote, his son ( ?) (Edward IIL), 1327-1377. 

7. John de Lipingeot & Wybbery, his son (?) (Henry V.), 1413- 

1499 



The Lippincotts in England and America, 19 

8. John de Lipingcot & Wyberry, his son, ( ?) 

9. John Lippingcott of Sidbury, his son. 

10. Thomas Lippincott, his son. 

11. George Lippincott, his son, married 1563. 

12. Thomas Lippincott, of Pynehill, his son, bapt. 1572. 

13. Henry Lippincott, of Almshayne, his son, born 1613. 

14. Henry Lippincott, of Culmstock, his son, born 1677. 

15. Sir Henry Lippincott, of Bristol, his son, bapt. 1737. 

16. Sir Henry Cann Lippincott, of Stoke Bishop, his son, born 1776. 

17. Robert Cann Lippincott, of Overcourt, Glouc, his son, born 1819. 

18. Robert Cann Cann Lippincott, his son, born 1841. 

The children of Robert Cann Lippincott and Margaret Agnes (Lud- 
low) Lippincott: 

1. Robert Cann Cann Lippincott, born Feb. 14, 1841. 

2. Margaret Jane Cann Lippincott, born May 14, 1842. 

3. Catharine Mary, born June 29, 1843, married Rev. H. Stent. 

4. Henry Cann Lippincott, born Nov. 1, 1844, and married to 

Helen A. Ker Williamson. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 

OF THE LIPPINCOTTS IN ENGLAND. 

Francis Lippincott, of Exeter, merchant, was Bailiff of Exeter in 

1648 ; Sheriff in 1649. He married Alice, daughter of , who 

died 13th Aug., 1660, was interred at Kenn, Devon, and had issue, 
Francis Lippincott, of Exeter, merchant. He was Bailiff of Exeter 
m 1650; married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Evans, mayor of Exe- 
ter, m 1650, who died 11th Sept., 1652, and was buried in Exeter 
Cathedral. 

Lippincott, of Alverdiscott, married , and had issue 



thirteen sons and daughters, all baptized, married, or left the place 
previous to 1779, except Henry or Harry, who married Amy, daughter 

of Glubb, and had issue a daughter only, who died an infant. 

Henry or Harry was buried at Alverdiscott 10th October, 1779. 

George Lippincott, of Alverdiscott, made his will 14th March, 1739. 
He mentions therein his brother Harry Lippincott, now or lately resid- 
ing at Barcelona. 

John Lippincott married, June, 1683, Anne Fairchild, who survived 
him many years. 



20 The Lippincotts in England and America. 

Thomas Lippincott, Bailiff of Sidmouth in the time of Henry VIII., 
1 509 to 1547, was probably the Thomas Lippincott, second son of John 
Lippincott and Jane Laplode. 

John Luffingcott appears as Steward, but by alphabetical index of 
Isaacke's " History of Exeter," as Bailiff of that city in 1648. 

Under head of Monasterii de Syon in the " Valor Ecclesiasticus," 

vol. i. p. 427, Subdivision Devon, appears the following entry: 

Feod' annuati' exeunt videlt. 

£ s d 

Thome Luppyncotte batt de Sidmouthe, — xx. — 

In the same, vol. v. p. 237, appears " Lytelffencote " and 

" Lytelff encott." 

Extracts from Registers of St. . Andrew's, Plymouth, Devon, made 
by James S. Lippincott, 1850: 

Weddings : 

1632, May 28. Nicholas England to Mary Lippincott. 

1636, Nov. 1. Bartholomew Lippingcott* to Elizabeth Squire. 
1639, Jan y 13. Robert Warren to Joan Lippincott. 

Baptisms : 

1629, Sept. 15. Martha, daughter of Thomas Lippingcot. 
1632, June 2. James, son of Thomas Lippingcot. 

1637, Nov. 15. Agnes, daughter of Bartholomew Lippingcot. 

Burials : 

1636, Oct. 12. Martha, daughter of Thomas Lippingcot. 

1639, May 4. Agnes, daughter of Bartholomew Lippingcott. 

1639, Sept. 7. James, son of Thomas Lippingcott. 

1645, Apr. 24. Thomas Lippingcott. 

Francis Lippingcott, of Kenne, 1689, and John Lippingcott, adm. 
1720, are named in Consistory Register, 1180 to 1765. 

From Catalogue of State Papers, James I. (1603-1625), p. 545: 

June 15. Tavistock. 107. Earl of Bath to the Council: The 
enclosed charges have been proved against Laomedon Lippincott, 
whose temper is so turbulent that any punishment he (we?) could 
inflict would only add fuel to his clamor. 

» In 1G58, Bartholomew Lippincott was taxed at Cocheco, now Dover, New 
Hampshire, and in 1662, at Dover Neck. See "New England Historical and 
Genealogical Register." 



The Lippincotts in England and America. 21 

(Incloses) 107. 1. Statement of violent conduct and threatening 
language used by Laomedon Lippincott, of Workleigh Co. Devon, 
against the officers of the ministers. He refuses the summons to be 
one of the trained band, and will not pay the martial rate. June 10. 

Philip Lippincot, apprentice, 1635. 

1638, May. Time of Charles I. p. 465 (vol. 

cccxxii). A petition of the Governor and Society of the French Mer- 
chants of Exeter to the Council, Eecites former petition against Richard 
Maine and Francis Lippincot, who used the trades both of merchant 
and retailer, the order of the Council thereon and the subsequent per- 
mission given to Richard Maine to retail commodities not appertaining 
to the French trade (see vol. cccxiv. No. 2), with command nevertheless 
that both parties should attend the Lords for a re-hearing, &c, &c. 

The above name is also spelled " Francis Hippingcott." 

NOTES ON THE ENGLISH LIPPINCOTT PEDIGREE, AUGUST, 1877. 

1. The children of Philip, son of second John, were Margaret, 
Edmund, Henry, Arthur, and Anne. No descendants are named. 
They lived in the sixteenth century. 

2. James Davidson's pedigree states that William Lippincott, of 
Wyberry, who married (Dyonisia?) sister of Sir John Fitzjames, 
Knight of Lewson, near Sherborne, Co. Dorset, had issue, John, George, 
Arthur, and Charles. 

3. Perhaps the last-named John was he who married, in June, 1683, 
Anne Fairchild, who survived him many years. 

4. Christian. No descendants named. 

5. A Thomas Lippincott, of Sydbury, married, 1583, Agnes , 

and had issue, Margaret, bapt. 20th Sept., 1560; also Robert, Alice, and 
Lillian. 

6. Another Thomas Lippincott, of Buckley, married at Sydbury, 
17th Jan., 1586, to Elizabeth . (Richard and Abigail had a grand- 
son Thomas.) 

7. Bartholomew Lippincott, of Sydbury, had issue: Anthony, bapt. 
4th Nov., 1593; Thomas, bapt. 29th May, 1595; Dorothy, bapt. 9th 
Oct., 1597; Joan, bapt. 1599; John, bapt. 1602; Mary, bapt. 7th Dec, 
1604; Bartholomew, bapt. 7th April, 1607. 

8. The last-named Bartholomew^ is, I think, the same whose mar- 
riage I find recorded at Plymouth, Devon, and his sister Joan the one 
ordered to be transported for attending conventicles. Bartholomew, 
above, is, I suppose, the same found at Dover, New Hampshire, New 
England, later in the seventeenth century (1658). 

9. Perhaps our Richard is son of either Anthony or Thomas or 
John, sJ.ns of Bartholomew, Senior, and brothers of Bartholomew, 
Junior, lat L : named above. 



22 The Lippincotts in England and America. 

10. The three sons of John Lippincott and Jane Laplode, Lewis, 
William, and John, youngest sons, have no descendants named. (Lived 
in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.) 

11. Bartholomew Lippincott married Elizabeth Squyre 1st Nov., 
1636. Robert Warren married Joan Lippincott 13th Jan., 1639. 
Martha Lippincott, daughter of Thomas, was buried 12th Oct., 1636. 
(Joan, above, was probably daughter of Bartholomew, Senior. Bar- 
tholomew appears in Parish Records of Plymouth.) 

12. There was a Richard Lippincott in the time of Elizabeth, as 
appears by the Chancery Records. Robert Burlton appears as plaintiff 
against Richard Lippincott, Johan his wife, Laomaeon Lippincott and 
Wilmot, his wife, defendants, claiming by purchase certain shares of 
the manor of Odam in Highhampton, and of the manor of Pelworthye 
in the Parish of Hatherlye, and messuages in Odam, &c, &c, &c, in 
Chancery Records, Temp. Elizabeth. 

13. Extracts from St. Andrew's, Plymouth Records, England. 

1632, May 28. Nicholas England married Mary Lippingcott. 

1636, Nov. 1. Bartholomew Lippingcott married Elizabeth 

Squyre. 
1639, Jan. 13. Robert Warren married Joan Lippingcott. 
Baptisms at same: 

1629, Sept. 15. Martha, daughter of Thomas Lippingcot. 
1632, June 2. James, son of Thomas Lippingcot. 

1637, Nov. 15. Agnes, daughter of Bartholomew Lippingcot. 
Burials : 

1636, Oct. 12. Martha, daughter of Thomas Lippingcott. 

1639, May 4. Agnes, daughter of Bartholomew Lippingcott. 

1639, Sept. 7. James, son of Thomas Lippingcott. 

1645, Ap. 24. Thomas Lippingcott. 

Lippingcott or Luppincott, of Wibbery, in Alverdiscot, originally 
Luffencot of Luffencot.* This family had married the heiress of 
Wibbery and co-heiress of Gough and Elford. Harry- Lippincott, Esq., 
the last male of the elder branch of the family, died in 1779. 

Sir Henry Lippincot, Bart., of Stoke, in Gloucestershire, is de- 
scended from a younger son of the Lippincots of Wibbery, whose 
descendants were originally settled at Pynhill, in Sidbury, and after- 
wards for some generations at Culmstock. 

Arms: Per fesse counterembattled g and s. Three talbots statant 
gardant argent two and one. 

From " Magna Britannia," by Rev. Daniel Lysons and Samuel 
Lysons, vol. vi. p. cciv. London, 1822. 

* So it appears from Sir William Pole, but a pedigree in the r Election of 
Sir Isaac Heard derives the name from a place called Lippincot '.a the parish 
of Sidbury. 



a 



The Lippincotts in England and America. 23 

Elfokd of Bickham, Nov. 26, 1802. This ancient family is said to 
have been of Cornish extraction. Robert de Elford was Sheriff of 
Devonshire in 1302. Before the year 1400 they settled in Longstone, 
in the parish of Shepstow, where the male branch remained till 1748, 
when it became extinct in the male line. John Elford, of Longstone, 
in 1577 married the heiress of Scudamore. John, the fourth in descent 
from the last-mentioned John, married a co-heiress of Coplestone, by 
whom he had four daughters; two of these married into the Fortescue 
family and a third married Woollcombe. 

Lysons's " Magna Britannia," vol. vi. p. cxviii. 

Coplestone. Philip Coplestone, the head of the family, in the 
reign of Edward IV. married the heiress of Bonville of Shute, by the 
heiress of Wibberv. 

The elder line of Coplestone failed in three or four descents after 
the last-mentioned marriage; the co-heiresses married Elford of Shep- 
stow and Bampfylde. The elder of these left four daughters co- 
heiresses, one of whom died unmarried, and the other three were mar- 
ried into the Fortescue family; from one of these Hugh, Earl of 
Fortescue, is the fourth in descent. 

Lysons's " Magna Britannia," vol. vi. p. clxxv. 

Chayford, in the hundred of Worford and in the deanery of Duns- 
ford, is a small market town about 3y 2 miles from Moreton Hampstead, 
15i/o from Exeter, and 189 from London. The manor of Chayford 
belonged in the reign of Henry III. to Sir Hugh de Chayford. Simon 
de Wibbery succeeded the grandson of Sir Hugh. The family of Wib- 
bery possessed this manor for seven generations, after which it passed 
by successive female lines to Gorges, Bonville, and Coplestone. 

Lysons's " Magna Brittania," vol. vi. p. 96. 

Woodland, in the parish of Little Torrington, in the hundred of 
Shibbear and deanery of Torrington, belonged to the family of de 
Woodland, whose co-heiresses brought it to Sellers and Wibbery. The 
whole became eventually vested in Wibbery, from whom it passed 
through the Bonvilles to Coplestone. 

Lysons's " Magna Brittania," vol. vi. p. 531. 

Wibbery or Webbery was the property and residence of a family 
of that name, whose heiress brought it to Leppincott. The Lippincotts 
possessed and resided at Webbery for many generations. Henry Lip- 
pincott, Esq., the last of the family, devised it to Charles Cutcliffe, Esq., 
of Weach, grandfather of John Merwin Cutcliffe, Esq., the present pro- 
prietor (1822), who has lately rebuilt the mansion on this estate for his 
own residence. 

Lysons's " Magna Brittania," vol. vi. p. 9. 



24 The Lippincotts in England and America. 

In the parish church of Northam, in the hundred of Shebbear, a 
mile and a half north of Bideford, is a monument to Mary, wife of 
Arthur Lippincott (daughter of Thomas Leigh), 1594. 

Lysons's " Magna Brittania," vol. vi. p. 366. 

Extracts from letters of Edward H. H. Shorto, of Exeter, England, 
employed by G. D. Scull, Esq., to examine the Becords of that city for 
the names of Bichard and Abigail Lippincott: 

Exeter, June 26, 1877. " The Archives of the Cathedral are in 
the annual returns of Baptisms by no means regular." 

" I have gone through the whole of the Begisters in Exeter, from 
the year 1538 to the beginning of the present century. The charge, 
as per Act of Parliament, is to the Incumbent 1/ for the first year and 
6d for each subsequent year." 

Searches, June 26, 1877: "Principal Begistry. 

1619, Lippincott, Thomas, of Cornwood, near Ivybridge, Plymouth, 
Will. 

1628, Lippincott, Joan, of Barnstaple, Will." 

" Totness Archdeaconry, divided into 10 Deaconries, not indexed, — 
had to read the whole list : name not mentioned." 

" Barnstaple : 

1637, Oct., Lippingcott, Thomazine, Ad. Blackboro, 

Nov., Lippingcott, Thomazine, Ad. with Will annexed." (Black- 
boro, near Collumpton.) 

" Peculiar of Custos & College of Vicars, Woodbury, Lippingcott. 
No Christian name. A." 

Exeter, June 29, 1877. "Dr. Sir: I am just returned from the 
Probate Court, where I have been busily employed in searching all the 
Wills, some of them very difficult to find, which has caused much delay, 
and all are in a most deplorable state of decay. 

1. The first searched, Lippingcott, Thomas, of Cornwood, Baker: 
total effects, L9, Is, 4. Children were Oliver, Shirwell, & Bachel Col- 
lings. Date 1619. No Eichard. 

2. Luppingcott, Anthony, Lyppingcott, Lippingcott,— three ways 
of spelling in the Will,— of Bydeford near Barnstaple, Gent n , living 
at Eastwood, Katharine, wife, Taylor, Newman, mentioned no 

Bichard." 

3. Lippingcott, Joan, of Barnstaple, 1628, widow, son Punsford, 

Lutterell. 

4. 1637, Oct., Lippingcott, Thomazine, Ad. Blackboro, nothing. 

5. Lippingcott, Thomazine, All Hallows, Exeter, 1637, wh Will 
annexed. Nothing nor does the name of Bichard occur. 

6. Peculiar, nothing. 

1778, Created Lippincott of Bristol, Baronet. Arms described." 



The Lippincotts in England and America. 25 

Exeter, July 2, 1877. " Dr. Sir: I have made a most careful search 
to-day in all the Registeries in the Probate Court, many of them not 
indexed," etc.; "from where I left off last, namely, 1640 to 1680, 
and where they were perfect, which was seldom, to the close of the 18th 
century. N. B. — I have reviewed my former search." 

" The first name appeared in the peculiar of the Custos & College 
of Vicars, 1646, indexed Lippingcott — A. without Christian name. 
This turned out to be the goods and chattels of Ann Hooker, of Wood- 
bury. Inventory, L217, 10, 6. Administered to by her natural son 
William Lippincott, fuller, of Upawbrey, modern Opottery, near 
Sidmouth." 

" The name does not occur again in any registry until 1706 : Lip- 
pingcott, Geo., Culmstocke. Ad. 

" I have found out to-day that Francis Lippincott was Steward of 
the city of Exeter, 1648. 

" As King Charles 1st was barbarously murdered, as says the same 
Chronicle, Jan. 30th and the year began in March, it may explain some 
of our difficulties of a great break of Wills about that time. I find 
also that Francis Luffingcott was Sheriff and that (John Luffingcott 
1648 that is nothing) this might even been the same name, as names 
differ so." 

" 1650, Francis Lippingcote Inn Steward is stupidly in the index 
as above, is in the margin called Lippinggalt." 

Exeter, July 4 1877. ..." Tuesday, Civic Records, led there- 
unto by.. 

" 1648, Francis Lippingcott, Steward. 

" 1650, Francis Lippingcott, Jun. No account of either of these 
gentlemen in the Records." . . . "I carefully searched the index, 
carefully prepared by Stewart Moore, Esqre. I came upon Lo y ghing- 
cote Miss 17 Deeds, but the date, 1351, beat me. He was the son and 
heir of Thomas de . 

" To-day I have waded carefully through 3 Books of acts of Bishops, 
consisting of marriage Licenses, caveats, Institutions & Probates & 
Administrations from 1618 to 1640. None of these are indexed, so 
that you have to read straight on; half of it is in Latin, and all so 
queerly written as only to be read by great care, and strange to say, 
in no case, either in M. L. or Probate, does the name of Lippincott or 
Abigail occur." 

Exeter, July 6, 1877. " My dear Sir: I have, as at all times, used 
a kind of discretion of my own. I find in the Register of Baptisms, 
1655, for the Parish of St. Petrock, Joan, the daughter of Francis 
Lippingcott, baptized 3rd June." 

Exeter, 10th July, 1877. " My dear Sir: I am in receipt of P. O. O. 
for three pounds ten of to-day, which I will use most faithfully & not 



26 The Lippincotts in England and America. 

abuse. With respect to the 40/ received we will say square as to the 
Lippincott affair, although I have searched a Bps transcripts for ten 
days. I cannot find any transcripts from Totness, the Deaconry in 
which Cornwood is situated, of the date at all satisfactory. You will 
please remember that the period is the most difficult, being the time of 
the great Rebellion, and as the time Pilgrim Fathers of Charles 2nd. 
I have worked most unceasingly, and am certain you could not have had 
the work done by any other save myself for 3 times the amount. You 
will please excuse my entering into particulars, as in many cases I have 
used the license admitted to myself without divulging the sources. I 
have privileges which it is neither expedient or faithful to divulge. It 
so happens that I am employed in a search in certain archives which I 
have given you the advantage of. . . . 

"I thank you for your kind remark, it is not thrown away, and 
although I ignore for the present any remuneration, as far as the 
Lippincott is concerned, any opportunity I may have of making mems, 
however worthless they may be, shall not be lost sight of. I need not 
assure you, as I am persuaded that, according to your last letter, you 
are sure that I have done the best I can. 

I remain yours faithfully, 

" Edw. H. H. Shorto." 

Exeter, July 4, 1877. "I carefully searched the Index (of the 
Probate Court) prepared by Stewart Moore, Esq., and I came upon 
Loyhingcots Miss^ Deeds, but the date 1351 beat me. He was the son 

& Heir of Thomas de . 

"Edw. H. H. Shorto." 

NOTES ON LOVECOTT. 

In the Hundred Roll of the time of Edward I., 1295, Devonshire 
was divided into thirty-three hundreds (including that of Lovetot, 
incidentally named as co-extensive with the manor of Fremington). 
Fremington is now a hundred in the north of Devonshire and includes 
Alverdiscott, the residence and property of the Lippincotts in 1413, and 
earlier, perhaps. 

Extract from "Valor Ecclesiasticus, temp. Henry VIII. Auctori- 
tate Regis Institutus," reprinted by command of George III., 1814, 
being an entire Survey and estimate of the whole Ecclesiastical Property 
of England and Wales, in the state in which it stood on the eve of the 
Reformation. 

On page 389 of the second volume of the above appears the follow- 
ing, under the head of " Divi' Exon' Com' Devon." 



L. s. d. 
— cvj, viij 



The Lippincotts in England and America. 27 

Rectoria de Loffyncote. 

Eector ibm non compuit coram Commissionar' istius 
auhid' assign' et postea p debit' examinacoem 'hitam 
coram Johe Exon' epo Johe Hull Johe Ford auditor et 
Johe Southcote auditore commissionar' dni Reg 3 pnoiat' 
q d rectoria p'dict p am n omibz exit suis corbz annis. . . . 

Ultr a iiij d solut' inde an" archio Totton p p'cessionaP 
p a no clar' 

The dissolution of the Monasteries began in 1535, and the above 
valuation preceded that date by a few years. 

The extract from the Great Domesday Book, extended in the law- 
Latin of the day. 

" Ipse Rualdus tenet Lovecote. Lofe tenebat Tempore Regis Ed- 
wardi, et geldebat pro dimidio virgatse terrae. Terra est duo carucatae. 
Ibi sunt duo villani et quatuor acrse prati, duodecim acraa pasturse. 
Olim triginta denarii, modo valet quinquaginta denarii." 

The extract from the Exon Domesday Book, extended in the law- 
Latin of the day. 

" Rualdus habet unam mansionem quam vocatur Lovecota, quam 
tenuit Lows ea die qua Rex Edwardus fecit valorem et mensionem, et 
reddidit gildutam pro dimidia virgata. Hanc possunt arare dua 
carrucata. Ibi habet Rualdus in domino unam ferdin et villani 

unum ferd. et Ibi habet Rualdus duae villani et quatuor agras 

prati et duodecim agras pascuee, et valuit per annum quatuor soldarii 
et duae denarii et quoniam recepit velebatur triginta denarii." 

By the Domesday Book Lovecote was returned as containing two 
carucates of land, that is, two ploughlands, or as much as two ploughs 
could cultivate in a year, including meadow and pasture for the teams 
and houses for the men. This is denned as two hides of land under 
cultivation alone, or from 200 acres to 240 acres. There were then 
four acres of meadow and twelve acres of pasture. One hide of land 
equals 100 to 120 acres. 

In the time of Edward III. Johannes de Loghyncote was outlawed 
for the murder of William Pynson, and his estate, consisting of a dwell- 
ing-house and a carucate of land and eight acres of wood, escheated to 
the crown. This was between 1327 and 1377. This property was 
given by the King into the custody of John de Cary. 

In 1422-1461, the manor of Luffyngcote is named in the Inquisi- 
tions in the reign of Henry V., and associated with Essewater, Snoth, 
and Tuxhill. 

Higher and Lower Lovecott, otherwise called James' Lovecott, in 
the parish of Shebbeare, and determined to be the Lovecote of the 
Domesday Book, contained in 1876, 47 acres 1 rood and 28 perches 



28 The Lippincotts in England and America. 

of land, and was the property of Alfred Earle, Esq., an English gentle- 
man formerly resident in Denmark and in Australia. Lovecott was 
visited on August 9, 1876, by James S. and Susan E. Lippincott, who 
were very kindly received by the gentlemanly proprietor. 

Euald Adobatus or Adobed held thirty manors in Devonshire, as 
per authority of the Domesday Book and Rev. B. Powell, Rector of 
Buckland Fillegh, near Lovecott in Shebbeare, an antiquarian, and 
author of " Marland Papers " in the North Devon Journal, Barnstaple. 

AEMS OF ENGLISH LIPPINCOTTS. 

Arms of Lippincott from various authorities, viz., Betham's " Ba- 
ronetage," Burke's " Encyclopaedia of Heraldry," " Playf air's " Family 
Antiquity," " Heralds' Visitations of Devonshire in 1565 and 1620," 
Sir William Pole's " Devon," etc. 

Wibbery of Wibbery, with which family the Lippincotts early 
intermarried. 

Arms: arsrent a fece bataile counterbatule sable, between three 
caterfoiles gules. From " Devon " of Sir W. Pole, p. 548. 

Lippincot of Wibbery. 

Arms : Partie per fesse bataile gules and argent, three cats passant 
counterchanged. Ibid., p. 491. 

Luppincote (Wibbery, Co. Devon). 

Arms : Per fesse nebulee gules and sable, three cats passant argent. 

Luppincote. 

Arms : Per fesse nebulee gules and sable, three cats passant argent. 
Crest: On a cross pattee argent four hearts gules. 

Lippingcote (Devonshire). 

Arms: Per fesse embattled gules and sable, three cats passant 
argent. 

Luppingcote. 

Arms: Per fesse embattled gules and sable, three leopards passant 
argent spotted of the second. 

One of the earliest coats of Lippincott of W3'berry, borne by Philip 
in 620. 

Arms: Per fesse embattled gules and sable, three leopards passant 
argent. 

Crest: Out of a mural crown gules five ostrich feathers alternately 
argent and azure. 

Lippincott or Luppincott (Wiberry in Alverdiscott, Devon). Ex- 
tinct in 1779. 

Arms: Per fesse counterembattled gules and sable, three talbots 
statant guardant argent two and one. 

Lippincott of Stoke Bishop. 

Arms : First and fourth, per fesse embattled gules and sable, three 



The Lippincotts in England and America. 29 

mountain cats statant gardant two and one argent, for Lippincott. 
Second and, third sable, a cheveron between three mermaids proper, 
mirror, comb, and hair or. 

Crest: In a mural crown gules a plume of ostrich feathers in one 
row argent and azure alternately. 

Motto: Secundus dubiisque rectus. 

Luffyngcotte. Ar. an eagle displayed sa. guttee de sang. The last 
from Edmundson's Heraldry. 



CHAPTER II. 

RICHARD AND ABIGAIL LIPPINCOTT. 

Eichard Lippincott, the ancestor of the Lippincott family in 
America, emigrated from Devonshire, England, about 1639 or 1640, 
and was probably nearly connected with the branch settled near Sidbury, 
which early exhibited puritanical proclivities. He associated with the 
early settlers of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, and was admitted a 
Freeman by the General Court of Boston, 13th May, 1640. In 1641, 
Richard and his wife, Abigail, resided at Dorchester, near Boston, when 
their eldest son, Remembrance, was born, probably in the 6th month, 
and baptized on the 19th of 7th month, 1641. This name was possibly 
bestowed in remembrance of the liberty he enjoyed after his arrival 
in the Western world, or in gratitude for the remembered mercies that 
had attended him. 

Having removed to Boston, their second son, John, was born there 
in the 8th month, and baptized on the 6th of 9th month, 1644, though 
his parents do not appear to have formed a connection with the church 
of Boston until the 28th of 10th month of that year. Their daughter 
Abigail was also born there 17th of 11th month, 1646, but died in 
infancy. 

On the records of the First Church of Boston appears the following 
minute : " Richard Lippincott, a member of y e church of Dorchester, 
being recommended from thence by letters to us and falling in a with- 
drawing from Communion with y e Church, was admonished y e 27 of 
2 mo., 1651." In less than three months thereafter the following 
occurs : " Richard Lippincott for with drawing communion from y e 
fellowship of y e church, and being demanded a ground of his so walking, 
he would give none, but said he wanted a commission to speak ; where- 
upon for not hearing y e church in their convincing arguments, was 
excommunicated from y e fellowship of y e church of y e 6 of y e 5th mo., 
1651, in y 6 name of y e Lord Jesus and with y e consent of y e church, 
being admonished twice before." 



30 The Lippincotts in England and America. 

The expression " He wanted a commission to speak " may be under- 
stood to imply either that he felt no necessity laid upon him to make 
any answer in extenuation of his course, or that he desired a commis- 
sion to preach. The " convincing arguments of y e church " were not 
sufficiently convincing to affect the mind of the conscientious man, 
and that which to " y e church " appeared to be and was by it intended 
to be a stigma and a brand of dishonor, becomes in our esteem a testi- 
monial to the steadfastness of his Christian character, and an evidence 
of his advancement in Christian truth. Thus our godly ancestor was 
separated from " y e church," and a blessed day of deliverance it proved 
to him, since it hastened his return to England, whose tender mercies 
were less cruel in her treatment of heretics and schismatics than the 
fierce step-mother, " y e church " and government of Boston, that had 
fled from her in order to enjoy those liberties they denied to others. 
His mind was preparing to accept the Christian views held by the 
Friends, though no publication by George Fox or any other early advo- 
cate of their doctrines had yet been issued. 

Had he remained among these Christians who had fled from perse- 
cution in their native land that they might worship God as their 
conscience dictated, he might have shared in "the tender mercies" 
that were extended to the Quakers a few years thereafter. Perhaps 
he would have been found wearing his hair too long, when about to visit 
the barber, or if he used the words thee and thou to the magistrates, 
would have been fined for not honoring his father and his mother, 
though they may have long before deceased, as several were treated for 
want of a more pertinent law against the Quakers. Strange that those 
who had fled from persecution should become the foremost to oppress 
those who differed from them in religious faith. It has been truly and 
tersely said, " Laud was justified by the men he had wronged." 

It may be difficult for us, taught by wiser and purer teachers, minis- 
ters of Christ, our Quaker fathers, to comprehend this inconsistency. 
The Puritans, it must be contended, had no distinct understanding 
of the true principles of civil and religious liberty. The idea of toler- 
ation had never dawned upon their minds, however strenuous their de- 
fenders may be in holding them up as the pioneers of these principles. 
" It was for religious liberty in a peculiar sense," says Upham, " that 
they contended, and they were severely faithful to the cause as they 
understood it. The true principles of religious liberty, in its full and 
wide comprehension, had never dawned upon their minds and were 
never maintained by them." 

Early after his excommunication Richard Lippincott appears to 
have made arrangements to return to England with his little family, 
his eldest son, Remembrance, being about eleven years, the younger 
son, John, about seven, doubtless grievously disappointed in his antici- 



The Lippincotts in England and America. 31 

pations of religious liberty and disgusted with the rulers of the Puritan 
Church. 

His home was now at Plymouth, Devonshire, and here on the 3d 
of 5th month, 1653, his third son, Eestore or Eestored, as the name 
was early written, was born. This peculiar name was doubtless be- 
stowed in commemoration of his restoration to his native land and to 
the communion of more congenial spirits. With those he associated 
perhaps soon after his return, but three or four years elapsed be- 
fore he appears to have only taken a part in the defence of the 
Friends or Quakers, which happened on this wise, as may be found more 
at large in Sewel's History. Thomas Salthouse and Miles Halhead 
having refused to swear or " take the oath of abjuration of the Pope," 
merely that they might not offend against the command of our Saviour, 
were sent back to prison " as such that clandestinely adhered to the 
Pope." On their recommitment to prison by the Mayor of Plymouth, 
in the jail at Exon Castle (Exeter), these Friends were charged with 
being disturbers of the peace, and for divers other high misdemeanors 
against a late proclamation prohibiting the disturbing of ministers and 
other Christians in their assemblies, and against an ordinance of his 
Highness the Lord Protector and his Council, lately made against duels, 
challenges and all provocations thereto, and as having refused to give 
sufficient security for their personal appearance at the next general 
sessions of the peace, etc. 

The falsehood of the above charges will appear from the following 
certificate, signed by sundry friends of the accused, among whom the 
name of Eiehard Lippincott is found, though spelled in a manner we 
have not elsewhere seen it appear : 

"We whose names are hereunto subscribed do testify That the 
several Particulars in an answer made by our Friends, are true, to wit, 
that they did not at all disturb the public Peace, nor were they at any 
other Meeting (but that which was appointed by us), to disturb any 
Ministers or other Christians in their assemblies and Meetings: Nor 
were they guilty of any challenges, Duels and Provocations thereunto 
in the least Measure whilst they were amongst us. And as for their 
refusal to give security, two of us, whose names are Eobert Cary and 
Arthur Cotton, had given Security to the Mayor, by entering into 
Eecognisance for their Appearance at the next Sessions the Day before 
their sending to Prison, but that the Town-clerk made it void the next 
Day, pretending it could not be according to Law. 

Ealpii Fogg, Thomas Faulkner, 

Arthur Cotton, Nicholas Cole, 

Eobert Cary, John Martindale, 

Eichard Smith, Eichard Lepincote, 

Anthony Todd, John Harris, Sen., 

John Harris, Jun." 



32 The Lippincotts in England and America. 

The trial of Thomas Salthouse and Miles Halhead was one of the 
first of its class, and the testimony has been unusually well preserved 
and the depositions taken at unusual length. Those curious to read the 
testimony taken in this remarkable trial, or proceedings which an- 
swered in place of a trial may find it in an article published in Frasrr's 
Magazine for August, 1878, entitled " The Trial of Two Quakers in the 
Time of Oliver Cromwell (from original records)," by A. H. A. 
Hamilton. The narrative of the sufferings of the prisoners was pub- 
lished under the title of " The wounds of an Enemie in the House of 
a Friend," 1656. During this trial the prisoners were closely ques- 
tioned as was then the custom, and after describing their movements 
up to their arrival at Pljmiouth, at the house of Arthur Cotton, they 
state that they "afterwards that evening went to Stonehouse at the 
house of one Lippincott." (May, 1655) . This was no doubt the Eich- 
ard Lepincote who, with Arthur Cotton and others Friends, had testified 
to the falsehood of the charges brought against the prisoners (the 
difference in the spelling of the name being easily explained by the 
ignorance or carelessness of the scribe). 

Thomas Salthouse and Miles Halhead had been committed to prison 
in May, 1655, and but few months elapsed before Richard Lippincott 
found himself in the same "jail near the castle of Exon " (Exeter), 
a companion of Margaret Kellam and Thomas Hooton. The cause of 
his imprisonment may be comprehended from the statement respecting 
Margaret Kellam's offence. 

In " A Short account of the Barbarous sufferings of Margaret Kel- 
am, etc., by the Government of the Town of Plymouth," etc., appended 
to a rare book entitled " The West answering to the North in the fierce 
and Cruel Persecution of the manifestation of the Son of God : " Lon- 
don, 1657, we find the following exhibit of the cause of M. Kellam's 
imprisonment, and incidentally that of Eichard Lippincott's : 

" To his honoured Friend Edward Eaddon, Secretary to General 
Disborrow, these present. 

" Sir : 

" My service presented to you. Being at Exon Sessions I came 
forth and witnessed against one Margaret Kill am what I heard her 
speak, viz. That when in discourse we spake concerning her walking 
according to the light within : I said, it is true, but the Scriptures or 
the Word of God, is the rule for us to walk by. She said, Jesus Christ 
is the Word. It is true, but there is a written word. thou art an 
ignorant person and dost not understand the Scriptures, said she. At 
which word the Judge of the Sessions demanded of her whether the 
Scriptures were the Word of God, or no? She did not confess it, or 



\ 



The Lippincotts in England and America. 33 

deny it before them, but they enjoyned me to draw up a Bill of Indict- 
ment against her, which as the Clerk under you drew up, but not accord- 
ing to my minde, but as both they and the Grand Jury said it must be 
so according to the form of the Law. In that case I onely can witness 
neither more nor less than above; but I cannot, neither did I swear 
that she should say the Scriptures were not the Word of God, but it was 
a Declaration of the minde of God.. 

"John Cawse. 
"Jan. 25." 

" And how far Justice Vowell, the Judge of the Court, was of the 
same minde, appears in that being spoken to by a Friend that the Law 
might proceed on her and that on her if she had transgressed, the Law 
might have its course, he replied to that Friend to this effect: Will 
ye have them hanged out of hand? Whereby he intended with her 
Richard Lippincott of Plymouth and Thomas Hooton, who were prison- 
ers for some such thing. And so by his question it appears that to say 
that Christ is the Word and the Scriptures a true Declaration of him 
(for these were the words which she onely said and which her Accuser 
witnessed to be so) in his judgment is matter of hanging: Was ever 
such a thing heard of before this day to come forth of the mouth of a 
Judge professing Christ ? The Jews who put him to death denyed him ; 
and they which persecuted his apostles and witnessed, disowned their 
testimony of him whom they declared, but this generation profess him 
in words and call themselves Christians, and yet seek to murther them 
who testify of him. Hang them that say Christ is the Word and the 
Scriptures a true Declaration of him; what more blasphemous bloodi- 
ness, damnable Anti-christianism and Mahometan hellishness? Can a 
Turk say more ? What would not this generation do to the Truth and 
the innocent Lambs of Christ were there power in their hands? How 
60on then would his Doctrine be mad Blasphemy and his Disciples 
Blasphemers, and their blood poured out on the ground for owning 
Him to be that which He is and which the Scriptures testify of Him ? " 
. . . " ye Lambs of Christ, what quick havock would be made 
of .you, and speedy riddance from off the Earth, were it not that ye 
are kept in the arms of the Almighty, and hid secret in his pavilion, 
where ye are preserved, even your Enemies themselves being Judges ? " 
. . . " That sessions ended without bringing her to trial on that 
Indictment, notwithstanding that the Friend aforesaid desired that 
the Law might have its course, which he moved lest they should put 
her off to the next sessions. And continued in Prison she was till the 
15th of the 12 mo. 1655, at which time she and other Friends, viz. 
Richard Lippincott and Thomas Hooton, were released by a warrant 
from Colonel Copplestone, Sheriff of the County of Devon, as followeth. 
3 



34 The Lippincotts in England and America. 

" These are to will and require you, on sight thereof, to set at lib- 
erty Richard Lippincott, Thomas Hooton and Margaret Kellam, wife 
of John Kellam, now in your Gaol, for which this shall be your suffi- 
cient Warrant. Given under my hand and seal this 13 day of Feb. 
1655. John Copplestone. 

" To Thomas Dight, Keeper of the Gaol 
near the Castle of Exon." 

Margaret Kellam had been shamefully and cruelly abused by the 
Mayor of Plymouth. Having felt " concerned to go to his house and 
tell him she had a Word from the Lord to him ; he bade her come in, 
heard her, and confessed that what she said, was very good and true. 
Nevertheless the Truth she uttered so displeased him that he sent her 
to prison where she was about a week, and at the intercession of her 
Friends, had some liberty granted her. But on the 4th of next month, 
about four in the morning, a Constable and serjeant came to her 
chamber, broke open the door, and refusing to shew their warrant, took 
her away by violence, tied a rope about her, threw her on a horse's 
back, bound her arms behind her, tied her feet under the horse's belly, 
and carried her in that inhuman manner ten miles (a monstrous 
barbarity to a tender woman of good education and considerable for- 
tune). Then they loosed her cords and told her they had a warrant 
to carry her to Exeter Gaol. There she lay till the Quarter Sessions, 
when endeavours were used to get an indictment drawn up against her ; 
but the Clerk of the Sessions and others employed in that work, could 
not agree about it, her manifest innocence baffling their attempt. After 
about two months imprisonment she was released by order of the 
Sheriff." 

During the ensuing five years Richard Lippincott appears to have 
enjoyed a good degree of peace, since we do not find that he was dis- 
turbed in the performance of his religious duties. He continued to 
reside at Stonehouse, a suburb of Plymouth. 

On the 1st of 7th month, 1655, ( ?) another son was born unto him 
and named Freedom, doubtless in commemoration of his recent release 
from durance vile; and there on the 10th of 5th month, 1657, his 
daughter Increase was born. His fifth son, Jacob, was also born at 
Stonehouse on 11th of 3d month, 1660. 

Persecution continued to rage throughout England, and Friends 
were no whit intimidated thereby. The imprisonment of several in 
Devonshire and in Cornwall induced many of their brethren from 
distant places to visit them, and as was usual with some, as they passed 
to declare to the people their own experience of the value of true relig- 
ion. This alarmed the Justices, who made an order of Sessions to 
apprehend as vagrants all Quakers travelling without a pass. In conse- 



The Lippincotts in England and America. 35 

quence of this arbitrary order many were imprisoned. Others were 
fined for absence from public worship; some were inhumanly whipped 
or placed in the stocks, and otherwise basely treated. Towards the end 
of 1660 a general imprisonment began for refusing to take the oaths 
of allegiance and supremacy, which nothing prevented the Friends 
from taking but their principle of obedience to Christ's precept, " Swear 
not at all," which they believed expressly prohibited all manner of oaths. 
For this purpose many were taken from meeting and had the oaths 
tendered them by the Mayor and other Commissioners, and for refusing 
it were sent to prison. On the 20th of January (the 11th month, old 
style), Kichard Lippincott and others were taken from a meeting at 
Plymouth by the Mayor and sent to the High Gaol at Exon (Exeter). 

The prisons of the High Gaol and Bridewell at Exon were now 
thronged, about seventy persons having been committed in about two 
months, among whom were all the men of Plymouth who were known 
as Quakers. The women nevertheless, undismayed, constantly con- 
tinued to hold their meetings for worship, which having been observed 
by the Mayor, he sent for them and asked them why they met contrary 
to the King's command. They answered that they did so, not in con- 
tempt of authority, but in discharge of their duty to God, in whose 
fear they met to wait upon and worship Him in spirit and in truth ; 
and that if in so doing they had broken the law, they were ready to 
show their submission by patient suffering. The Mayor then proposed 
to them to become engaged for one another's good behaviour, to which 
they replied that they had not been guilty of ill behaviour, as the people 
of the town who knew their Conversations could witness. Their Chris- 
tian courage and constancy made such an impression upon the Mayor, 
that he dismissed them, threatening, however, that if they were again 
brought before him he would send them to prison. (Besse's " Suffer- 
ings of the Quakers," vol. i. pp. 151, 152.) 

Kichard Lippincott was again in prison, and his wife was doubtless 
among the women who continued to attend meetings for worship regard- 
less of the rigor of the persecuting arm. Some may incline to censure 
as stubborn and self-willed the conduct of these inflexible adherents 
to conscientious conviction. It was said of Friends in the time of 
George Fox, that they were " as stiff as trees," their refusal to pay 
tithes, to perform military service, to take oaths, etc., though the sure 
prospect of suffering lay before them, having given rise to this remark. 
" But," says one who has written much in their defence, though not 
one of them, " this noble practice of bearing testimony, by which a 
few individuals attempt to stem the torrent of immorality by opposing 
themselves to the stream, and which may be considered as a living 
martyrdom, does in a moral point of view a great deal of good to those 
who conscientiously adopt it. It teaches them to reason upon principle 



36 The Lippincotts in England and America. 

and to make their estimates by a moral standard. It is productive 
both of patience and of courage. It occasions them to be kind and 
attentive and merciful to those who are persecuted and oppressed. . . . 
It is a great pity that, as professing Christians, we should not more 
of us incorporate this noble principle individually into our religion. 
. . . What an immensity of good would be done if cases of persons 
choosing rather to suffer than to temporize were so numerous as to 
attract the general notice of men!" (Clarkson's "Portraiture of 
Quakerism.") 

This remarkable firmness and persistence in opposition to every 
form of wrong has made the Quakers a power in the earth, and ren- 
dered them the pioneers of almost every moral and political reform of 
the last two centuries. The Friends have ever been foremost in works 
of philanthropy and Christian progress, and whether we regard them as 
defenders of the rights of conscience and the liberties of the people, 
as opposers of slavery, of oaths, of tithes, of the abomination of war, the 
cruel treatment of the aborigines, of criminals and the insane, or the 
high consideration they have ever awarded to woman, we find them 
everywhere in advance of their contemporaries. The principles of free- 
dom promulgated during the Revolutionary War in America and 
embodied in the Constitution of the United States are directly traceable 
to the sound religious and civil views of the early founders of the 
Society of Friends, or to their revival of the principles and practices of 
primitive Christianity, and it can be safely asserted that mankind is 
more largely indebted to Quakerism for its present social happiness 
and moral elevation than to any other religious body in existence. 
Their firmness has therefore borne most excellent fruit. 

The colony in Rhode Island in those days offering to Friends 
freedom for the exercise of their mode of worship, Richard Lippincott 
again removed to New England, where he sojourned for a time. Hav- 
ing been preserved from the wrath of the persecutor and the perils of 
the sea, he named his next son Preserved, who was born here on Christ- 
mas day, 1663. The names of the surviving children of Richard and 
Abigail form the words of a prayer, which needed only the addition 
of a »on, Israel, to have been complete. Thus, Remember John, Re- 
store Freedom, Increase Jacob, and Preserve (Israel). This was doubt- 
less accidental, having never been premeditated by their parents, though 
inclined to ways in fashion among the Puritans. 

A new charter having been granted by Charles II., incorporating 
the Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in 1663, and the New 
Netherlands having come into the possession of the English in 1664, 
and a patent granted to a company of Friends from Long Island in ' 
1665, who first bought the lands of the Indian sachems, Richard 
Lippincott felt drawn to remove with others from Rhode Island and 



The Lippincotts in England and America. 37 

become an associate patentee with the residents on and near Shrewsbury 
River, in East Jersey. He thus became a member of the first English 
colony in New Jersey, in which he was the largest shareholder. 

He was an active officer of the colony, and in 1669 was deputy 
of the Patentees, and an overseer, and again, in 1670, an overseer of 
Shrewsbury Town. In the latter year the first meeting for worship 
was established by Friends, which was visited by George Fox in 1672. 
The residence of Richard Lippincott was on Passequeneiqua Creek, a 
branch of South Shrewsbury River, three-quarters of a mile northeast 
of the house of his son-in-law, Samuel Dennis, which stood three- 
quartes of a mile east of the town of Shrewsbury. 

John Fenwick being ambitious to found a colony in America, and 
needing funds therefor, sold to various parties while in England 
extensive tracts in his projected domain. Richard Lippincott engaged 
to locate 1000 acres, lying on the Cohansey River, in the present county 
of Salem, New Jersey. Fenwick confirmed the grant of lands hypothe- 
cated to Lippincott in England in August, 1676, and conveyed the said 
1000 acres for the payment of £20, consideration money, and two bushels 
of wheat annually, in rent. This land was intended for Richard Lip- 
pincott's five sons, and was surveyed in 1678, and divided among them 
in the following year. By agreement Freedom was permitted to have 
the first choice. John sold his share to Freedom in 1683, and Freedom 
parted with his 200 acres in 1686. 

Having at length found a fixed residence, Richard Lippincott lived 
an active, useful life, surrounded by a worthy family, and comfortable 
in the possession of a sufficient estate and happy in the enjoyment of 
religious and political freedom. Here he passed the last eighteen years 
of his life, and here he died on the 25th of 9th month (November, 
O. S.), 1683. 

WILL OF RICHARD LIPPINCOTT. 

The last will of Richard Lippincott of Shrewsbury, in the Province 
of East New Jersey, being in his right perfect sense and memory, dis- 
poseth of his outward estate as followeth, viz : I do «ive and bequeath 
to my sone Jacob Lippincott all and singular my upland and meadow, 
being lying and adjoining to a place commonly called long point, to 
him and his heirs, executors, and administrators or assigns forever. 
Secondly, I do give and bequeath to my sone Freedome Lippincott, 
after the decease of myself and my wife, all and singular my new dwell- 
ing, housing, out housing, with yards, and my farm, thereunto adjoin- 
ing, during his natural life and no longer; and after his decease then 
I give it to my grandsone Richard Lippincott, to him and his heirs or 
assigns for ever, and Thirdly, I give to my sone, Remembrance five 
shillings. Fourthly, I give to my sone John five shillings. Fifthly, 



38 The Lippincotts in England and America. 

I give to my sone Restore five shillings, and I give to my daughter In- 
crease five "shillings, and all the rest and remainder of my outward 
estate I leave to my loving wife, Abigail Lippincott, and after my 
decease to be at her disposing, with the advice of Friends; and do 
acknowledge this to be my own act. I set my hand and seale tins 
twenty-third day of the nynth month, one thousand six hundred eighty 

three. 

Eichard Lippincott. (Seal.) 

Signed in the presence of 

Hugh Dickman 

Judaii Allen. 

Eichard Lippincott above named did this twenty third day of the 
nynth month 1683, personally before me signe this above written Instru- 
ment acknowledging this to be his act and deed. 

Joseph Parker, Justice of the Peace. 

Book A of Patents, etc., p. 330, in the office of Sec. of State, 

Trenton, N. J. 

Richard Lippincott made a will but named no executor, making 
his wife Abigail residuary legatee. 

Joseph Parker, John Hance, and Eliakim Wardell were, on the 2d 
of January, 1683, appointed to examine and inquire respecting the 
estate of Richard Lippincott, deceased. 

Abigail Lippincott became administrator, William Shattuck and 
Francis Burden giving bond in £300 for her faithful administration. 
Book A of Patents, p. 330. 

A deed of Richard Lippincott, dated 26th of 3d month, 1683, 

conveying land on Mompeson's Creek, was signed by 25th 

of June, 1684, having been confirmed by Abigail Lippincott 18th of 
April 1684. Book C, p. 61. 

A patent was granted to Abigail Lippincott 25th March, 1687, for 
150 acres of a tract called by the Indians Passequeneiqua, near Passe- 
queneiqua Creek. Book B, p. 114. 

WILL OF ABIGAIL LIPPINCOTT. 

I, Abigaill Lippencott of Shrewsberry In y e County of Monmouth 
and Province of East Jersey, In America, & Relick of Richard Lippen- 
cott Deceased, being at this time through mercy of a sound mind 
and memory, for y e better setting and Disposing of y e outward Estate 
which it has pleased God to possess me of, And to prevent All discord 
that might otherwise ensue, I do make and declare this to be my Last 
Will and Testament, Revoyking & making voyd All former Wills and 
this onlv to stand In force According to y e true Intent and plaine mean- 



The Lippincotts in England and America. 39 

ing of y e express words herein, without any forced construction or 
Interpretation upon them. I do order and Appoint that all my Debts 
which shall be Legally Due from me at my Decease be paid out of my 
Stock as soone as possibly may be done. Item, I do give & bequeath 
unto my Grandson John Lippencott & to his Heirs, Executors, Adminis- 
trators or Assigns, one hundred Acres of upland & meadow, being part 
of y e new purchase called Passequenoque, In Shrewsbury Aforsaid, 
which I bought of Francis Jackson & his wife, as by their Deed to 
their [that?] purpose, bearing date y e sixteenth day of y e third month 
1687, may more fully & at large appeare. Item I give and bequeath 
unto my son Freedom Deceased unto his wife y e sum of five pounds, 
& unto y e children of my Aforesaid son Freedom Deceased, Excepting 
his Eldest son Samuel, I do give & bequeath y e sum of fiftie pounds all 
current money, the which fiftie five pounds is to be paid out of y e 
produce of my Land that I have In y e new purchase called Freehold, 
containing one hundred & fifty acres, as by my Pattent doth fully 
appear; and also my Negro Woman called Bess, being put to sale 
and sold y e overplus thereof is to Eeturn to y e Stock. Item, I give and 
bequeath unto my three grandaughters Even the offspring of my 
daughter Increase Dennis, unto Abigail Dennis I give tenn pounds, 
and unto my Grandaughter Zybiah Dennis I give five pounds, and unto 
my Grandaughter Rachel Dennis I give five pounds more, which sume 
of money is to be paid out of my goods & chattels, and unto my son 
In Law Samuel Dennis I give five shillings, and by this same do freely 
Requitt & forgive all Debts and Dues belonging unto me by book or 
otherwise from him: And also after my Decease y e Aforesaid Samuell 
Dennis shall have y e use and benefit of y e aforesaid sume of money 
that I have given unto his three daughters untill they Survive to y e 
age of Eighteen ) r ears, or untill their day of marriage. Item, I give 
and bequeath unto my sone Restore Lippencott y e Sume of twenty 
pounds, which is to be paid out of my goods and chattels. Item, I 
give and bequeath unto my sone Remembrance Lippencott my Negro 
boy Gilbie. Item, I give and bequeath unto my Sone John Lippencott 
that parcell of meadow which I bought of my sone Restore, Lying on 
y e South side of Shrewsberry River, as by Deed may more largely 
appear: Also I give unto him my young Negro boy called Oliver: 
Also I do give and forgive unto all my children (viz.) Re- 
membrance Lippencott, John Lippencott, Restore Lippencott, all such 
Debts, Dues & Demands, Sume and Sumes of money or other pay that 
shall be Due unto me from any or either of them by booke Rec pt or 
otherwise; also I give to y e meeting of ffriends In Shrewsbery y e sume 
of thirty shillings, for friends to dispose of as they see fitt. And all y e 
rest and remainder of my Estate, of what kind or nature soever not 
herein disposed of before, I do order and appoynt It shall be Equally 



40 The Lippincotts in England and America. 

devided between my three sons and y e children of Freedom my dear 
son deceased parted by Lott. Lastly I desire authorize & Appoynt my 
beloved friends John Hance, William Worth & William Shattock to 
see this my Last Will & Testament to be faithfully performed. Free- 
doms son Samuell was Interlined befor being Excepted against for some 
Reasons, his ffather dying without a will, And further it is my 
will that my two Negros Oliver Cosen & his wife Attah have their 
Freedom after my Decease. And if any of my Grandchildren afore- 
mentioned unto whom I have given Legacies should dye before they 
receive it, then their Legacy shall Returne to y e rest of their relations. 
In Witness hereunto I y e above said Abigail Lippencott have here unto 
sett my hand and seale this twenty Eight day of y e fourth month one 
thousand six hundred ninety seven. 

Abigall Lippencott A her mark. (Seal.) 

Signed, Sealed In y e presence of George Curliss, William Shattock, 
Anne Lippincott, Margarett Lippencott. 

I did promise Thomas Hewitt that he should have the Refusal 
of my Negro Bess after my Decease. 

Perth Amboy, August y e 24th 1697: Then appeared before me 
William Shattock & George Curlis, two of y e witnesses to y e within 
Testament and having taken their Solemn protestation doeth say, that 
they did see the within Abigall Lippencott signe Seale publish and 
declare this within writing to be her last Will and Testament, and at 
y e same time, that she was of sound mind and perfect memory. 

And: Hamilton. 

To All Christian People to whom these presents shall come or whom 
these present Letters Testimoniall shall or may concern : The Governor 
& proprietors of y e Province of East New Jersey Send Greeting. 
Know yee y* y e Last Will and Testament of Abigall Lippencott of 
Shrewsbery In y e County of Monmouth & Province of East New Jer- 
sey In America, & Relick of Richard Lippencott Deceased, & hereunto 
Annexed, was tendered proved and approved before us, And y e said 
Abigail Lippencott having whilst she lived divers goods and chattels 
to be Administered within y e said Province, And y e Right of disposing 
and granting y e Administration thereof belonging unto us : Now further 
know yee that we Have Admitted, And by these presents Do admit 
the Administration of all and singular y e goods chattels & creditts of 
y e s d Abigall Lippencott Deceased, unto John Hance, William Worth 
& William Shattock, Executors in y e above Last Will and Testament 
therein named, truly and faithfully to Administer of y e same, And 
A full true & perfect Inventory & apprisement of all & singular y e 



The Lippincotts in England and America. 41 

goods chattels & credits of y e said Deceased to make, And y e same to 
Exhibit Into our Secretary's office of y e s d Province on or before y° 
twenty Eight day of January next ensueing, And Administer thereof 
According to Law, And further do make or cause to be made A True 
and Just Acc pt of their Administration on or before y e twenty ninth day 
of August which shall be In year of our Lord 1698. Given under 
y* 5 seale of y e s d Province this twenty Eight day of August, Anno 
Dom: 1697, In ye ninth year of ye Keigne of our Sovereign Lord 
William the third over England &c, King. 

And: Hamilton - . 
A true copy By me, J Barclay, Eeg tr . 
(Endorsed) Copy of Abigail Lippencots Will. Price 3 sh. 6 d. 

The above was transcribed from an ancient copy in the possession 
of Hannah Lippincott, Nov., 1849, residing in Haddonfield, N. J. It 
is written upon a sheet of cap size, and is much browned by age and 
slightly torn by folding at the parts marked by the broken lines in the 
above. The said H. L. is the daughter of Joshua Lippincott, of Crop- 
well (son of Freedom and Elizabeth, son of Freedom and Mary, son of 
Richard and Abigail), and is now in her eighty-third year, and in 
possession of her mental faculties. 

Phila., 10th mo., 1849. 



CHAPTER III. 

RICHARD AND ABIGAIL LIPPINCOTT's CHILDREN. 

The following brief summary, corrected as carefully as possible by 
the latest information in possession of Mr. James S. Lippincott, will 
serve as an excellent introduction to his more extended account of 
Richard and Abigail Lippincott's children and their descendants. 

1. Remembrance, born at Dorchester, New England, 15th of 7th 
mo., 1641 (?); baptized 19th of 7th mo., 1641; married Margaret 
Barber, and died 21st of 11th mo., 1723. (Probate of will said to be 
6th of Aug., 1723.) 

2. John, born at Boston, New England, 1st of 9th mo., 1644; 
baptized 6th of 9th mo., 1644. 

3. Abigail, born at Boston, New England, 17th of 11th mo., 16 It! ; 
died 9th of 1st mo., 1647. 

4. Restore, born at Plymouth, England, 3d of oth mo., 1653 ( ?) ; 
married 6th of 9th mo., 1674, Hannah Shattuck, daughter of William ; 
second wife, Marth Owen; died — of 5th mo., 1741. 

5. Freedom, born at Stonehouse, Plymouth, England, 1st of 7th 



42 The Lippincotts in England and America. 

mo., 1655 ( ?) ; married 14th of 8th mo., 1680, Mary Curtis, of Burling- 
ton, N. J. ; died 1697,— killed by lightning. 

6. Increase, born at Stonehouse, Plymouth, England, 5th of 10th 
mo., 1657; married Samuel Dennis Feb., 1680, and died 29th of 9th 
mo., 1695. 

7. Jacob, born at Stonehouse, Plymouth, England 11th of 3d mo., 
1660 ; married Grace , and died 6th of 11th or 12th mo., 1689. 

8. Preserved, born at Rhode Island, New England, 25th of 12th 
mo., 1663, and deceased 1st of — mo., 1666 ( ?). 



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